RARS Race Report & News About Upcoming Races April 23th, 2000 RARS is the Robot Auto Racing Simulation, a competition for programmers and an on-going challenge for practicioners of Artificial Intelligence and real-time adaptive optimal control. It consists of a simulation of the physics of cars racing on a track, a graphic display of the race, and a separate control program (robot "driver") for each car. All RARS software and activities are free and open to the public. It runs on DOS, Windows, OS/2, UNIX, Linux, and several other platforms. For more information e-mail to GianCarlo.Pascutto@advalvas.be. Or visit the Rars website at http://www.ebc.ee/~mremm/rars/rars.htm Contents Submissions Todays Races Preliminary lap times Race Report Authors Point Standings Upcoming Races Comments ---------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions Please! Any people who want to submit for the first time please give yourselves more than a day or two. Submissions are to be SOURCE CODE only. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Here is a repeat of the announcement about todays races: April 23th No. of races 2 Tracks: silver97 + random Miles: not less than 300 (extras 150) Software version: 0.74 Surface Type: 1 ---------------------------------------------------------------- RARS version 0.74 Track surface type 1. 9 cars for 300 miles over 1 tracks with 1 races on each track. The initial RVG seed was 29935. ======================================================================= * Qualifying results on silver97.trk: 2 laps for fastest LAP speed. 1 qualifying session. Qualification cutoff value was 150% from fastest car speed. Track record was 87.204 mph by DougE1Time to qualify: 60.215 mph. 1 K1999 90.322 mph 2 DougE1 87.168 mph 3 Felix15 86.458 mph 4 Sparky1 86.387 mph 5 JOCOSA82 84.126 mph 6 Djoefe 82.235 mph 7 Apex8 78.902 mph 8 DGN 78.319 mph damage 654 9 SAD01 74.838 mph _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: silver97.trk. Race length was 300.91 miles, 484.24 kilometers. Track record was 90.32 mph by K1999 F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 1 K1999 93 93 87.09 89.90 7988 12 2 105 70 10 2 4 Sparky1 90 0 84.17 86.35 10836 17 3 96 70 6 3 2 DougE1 90 0 84.03 86.70 2940 43 2 145 66 4 4 3 Felix15 90 0 84.00 86.49 7603 23 2 78 63 3 5 5 JOCOSA82 88 0 82.14 84.13 1333 90 3 94 76 2 6 6 Djoefe 86 0 80.07 82.08 4109 42 3 120 78 1 7 7 Apex8 84 0 78.06 79.26 3814 30 2 77 60 0 8 8 DGN 81 0 75.57 77.80 10894 21 4 151 57 0 9 9 SAD01 66 0 73.61 75.34 30001 97 2 97 56 0 RARS version 0.74 Track surface type 1. 8 cars for 150 miles over 1 tracks with 1 races on each track. The initial RVG seed was 479. _______________________________________________________________________ * Results of race 1: Track: random.trk. Race length was 150.61 miles, 242.38 kilometers. Track record was 0.000 mph by Nobody F: S: Driver :laps:lead: speed: best: damage:fuel:pits:time:last:pnts 1 7 K1999 192 129 58.59 66.29! 13948 119 6 523 176 10 2 3 Sparky1 191 51 58.24 62.50! 19378 4 3 243 129 6 3 4 Felix15 188 12 57.24 59.19! 10851 39 2 103 183 4 4 8 JOCOSA82 180 0 54.67 57.99! 16285 43 3 182 119 3 5 2 Djoefe 155 0 47.35 49.89! 16876 44 2 236 105 2 6 1 SAD01 138 0 41.91 45.48! 5766 136 6 317 127 1 7 6 Apex8 135 0 41.27 43.63! 7959 103 1 130 93 0 8 5 DGN 131 0 39.82 43.41! 5584 127 4 286 120 0 Points for Day Race 1 Race 2 Total ------------------------------------------------------------------ K1999 10 10 20 Felix15 3 4 7 JOCOSA82 2 3 5 Apex8 0 0 0 Djoefe 1 2 3 SAD01 0 1 1 DougE1 4 0 4 DGN 0 0 0 Sparky1 6 6 12 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Driver's Standings K1999 80 pts (France) Remi Coulom Felix15 37 pts (Netherlands) Doug Eleveld DougE1 26 pts (Netherlands) Doug Eleveld JOCOSA82 23 pts (Mexico) Jorge Cervantes Djoefe 14 pts (Belgium) Gian-Carlo Pascutto Sparky1 12 pts (USA) Tim Foden Apex8 12 pts (Estonia) Maido Remm SAD01 3 pts (Ireland) M.O'Neill & M.Nicolau DGN 1 pts (Italy) Nicola Della Gioia Constructor's Standings Remi Coulom 80 pts (France) K1999 Doug Eleveld 44 pts (Netherlands) DougE1, Felix15 Jorge Cervantes 23 pts (Mexico) JOCOSA82 Gian-Carlo Pascutto 14 pts (Belgium) Djoefe Tim Foden 12 pts (USA) Sparky1 Maido Remm 12 pts (Estonia) Apex8 M.Nicolau / M.O'Neill 3 pts (Ireland) SAD01 Nicola Della Gioia 1 pts (Italy) DGN ------------------------------------------------------------------- Comments RARS has gone on quite some time without a serious contender from the USA, but that seems to have changed now. Tim Foden with his 'Sparky' driver finished 2nd in both races, which is, considering the general level of the top bots these days, quite a feat. K1999 on the other hand kept it's 100% score and is still undefeated in the current season. Ouch! The random track was small, had lots of turns, and as a result the slower bots were all over it. The race was interesting to watch, with K1999 taking a lot more damage during the race, having to pit more, and Sparky taking over the lead a few times because of that. Still, K1999's 4mph speed advantage proved decisive. Tracks: http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/random.trk Drivers: (Sparky is confidential) http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/jocosa82.zip http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/sad01.zip http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/dgn.zip http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/djoefe.zip Movies are at: http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/silver97.zip http://home.planetinternet.be/~pascutto/random.zip Greetings, Gian-Carlo